Sbarro Massacre

The Sbarro Massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack on a Downtown Jerusalem Sbarro pizzeria on 9 August 2001, in which 15 civilians were killed and 130 wounded in one of the most infamous terrorist attacks in Israel.

History
The Hamas terrorist group rallied supporters of the independence of Palestine in 2000 and began the Second Intifada against Israel, which was characterized by a series of massacres and suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. In 2001, Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri and Ahlam Tamimi planned a suicide attack against a Sbarro pizzeria in Downtown Jerusalem, filled with dozens of women, children, and babies on 9 August 2001. Tamimi left as al-Masri prepared to detonate a 10-kg explosive in either a belt or a guitar case that was filled with nails, nuts, and bolts. The bomb exploded at 2:00 PM IDT, killing 13 Israelis, a pregnant American woman, and a Brazilian, all of them civilians. 130 people were wounded, and few left the restaurant unscathed. The bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti and Tamimi were soon arrested, and the United States, European Union, and United Nations sent their condolences to Israel while Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat blamed Israel for the bombing.